Post B0F5jYTCMtEDFdwn0y by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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(DIR) Post #B0EmnDUUPbQYDNaF6W by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-14T13:25:03Z
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I don’t understand… when did Mozilla, a not-for-profit that owns a half-billion-dollar-a-year for-profit that gets its half-a-billion dollars every year from Google go bad? They seemed like such good folks.
(DIR) Post #B0EnHXv51RlCGGU1Ym by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-14T13:30:24Z
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Mozilla’s head of public policy to me, back when: “I don’t know why you’re holding us to such a higher standard, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”Me to folks: “Mozilla is just another Silicon Valet tech company. They’re not what they say/you think they are.”Folks to me: “Shut up, you tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist!”Folks, today: “Umm, why is Mozilla acting like just another Silicon Valley tech company? I guess we’ll never know.”🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #B0EoD6YSvDJABeLrJQ by fooxl@fosstodon.org
2025-11-14T13:40:52Z
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@aral Here's are some answers:https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/
(DIR) Post #B0EoM4UnwkkGPIumnY by Rania@freesewing.social
2025-11-14T13:42:22Z
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@aral Every organization initially presents a positive image and good treatment.
(DIR) Post #B0EoppJwvpKS1v1fWq by rgo@masto.pt
2025-11-14T13:47:48Z
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@aral Firefox keeps pushing web standards and privacy. Google funding enables that work.
(DIR) Post #B0Eq0qVqwLiMrmPb5U by bilal_mo@mas.to
2025-11-14T14:00:56Z
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Hello @aral What is your browser of choice these days then? Vivaldi?
(DIR) Post #B0EwUIyUnVpRGLEvKa by freediverx@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T15:13:21Z
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@aral Capitalism coo-opts and corrupts everything eventually.
(DIR) Post #B0F5jXhLEowmrDYZQ8 by matiu_bidule@mamot.fr
2025-11-14T13:48:16Z
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@denny @aral THIS. yes +100000 blame capitalism.Mozilla is the tech equivalent of social democrats party (the one i know best PS and LFI in France, and from what i can read in the news about Democrat party in the US) : They are lamentable and invariably disappointing because they make cheap compromises, and yet we have no choice but to put up with them because we don't have the weight to do without them. All we can do is pray that one day they'll stop screwing up.
(DIR) Post #B0F5jYTCMtEDFdwn0y by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-14T16:57:00Z
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@matiu_bidule @denny But are they screwing up? Many people wouldn’t consider earning half a billion dollars a year to be screwing up under capitalism. What if they’re actually being very successful at what they’re doing but what they’re doing is what they say they’re doing?
(DIR) Post #B0F5u0Tz4Yt31jIZCi by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-14T16:58:59Z
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@davidculley @bilal_mo Was. Apple’s made it unusable under Sequoia. So I’m mostly using Ungoogled Chromium at the moment. It’s a sewer; pick the shit that smells best to you 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #B0F8GHSSq3JPxFKuQa by matiu_bidule@mamot.fr
2025-11-14T17:25:35Z
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@aral @denny You're right : they screw US up....
(DIR) Post #B0GW3pBOjQBCqLuID2 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-15T09:27:01Z
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@rgo Of course ;)It’s like that not for profit, Smokezilla, an ethical cigarette company that advocates for healthier living funded by billions from Philip Morris.
(DIR) Post #B0GZGgPAyhsRFMAssa by mjj@mstdn.dk
2025-11-15T10:02:47Z
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@aral Also Mozilla: Why are you treating us like a Silicon Valley company? We are righteous community dudes!
(DIR) Post #B0GaCk1DhVltFYeaLQ by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-15T10:13:23Z
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@mjj Yep. (My jaw did hit the floor when she told me that – the context for the original comment is that she was asking me to go easy on them at a conference we were both speaking at. I managed: “But that’s not what you tell everyone, is it?”)
(DIR) Post #B0GxI9Etelcrrcb8Km by tchauhan@mastodon.mit.edu
2025-11-15T14:32:06Z
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@aral It was when their head honcho negotiated millions of dollars a year in compensation. If a company has a pay scale range going from volunteer to millions of dollars a year their policy decisions will always be in the service of massive profits.
(DIR) Post #B0H0y16YafZ6ezLxnE by javi@goblin.band
2025-11-15T11:38:36.728Z
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Earlier this year they acquired and incorporated into Firefox an ad-tech company founded by two of the top marketing guys of Facebook in the 2010s. They kept them as heads of ads or something like that. When I said this was a terrible move and made Firefox future look dire I was called all kind of names 🤷